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Pscyh Test 4 (final)
Stress, Health & Coping pg. 591-597 (Lecture 39, Dumas)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In what 3 ways do psychologists view stress? | 1. A stimulus (exams, lost something, car broke down, etc.) 2. A response (tense, unconcentrated, worried, etc.) 3. An organism-environment interaction |
| Stressors | Stimuli or events that place strong demands on us. |
| Stress | A pattern of cognitive appraisals, physiological responses, and behavioural tendencies that occurs in response to a perceived imbalance between situational demands and the resources available to cope with them. |
| What are the 3 classes of stressors? Give examples for each. | 1. Microstressors (daily hassles or anooyances) 2. Major negative events (victim of abuse, major illness, career failure, loss) 3. Catastrophic event (unexpected and usually require large amount of people, such as natural disasters, war, etc.) |
| Life event scales | Questionnaires that measure the number (and, sometimes, the intensity) of positive and negative life events that have occurred over a specific period of time. |
| What are the 5 main stressor characteristics? | 1. Intensity/severity 2. Duration 3. Predictability 4. Controllability 5. Chronicity |
| In response to stress, what are the 4 aspects of the appraisal process ? | 1. Appraisal of demands of a situation (primary appraisal) 2. App. of resources available to cope (secondary appraisal) 3. Judgements of what the consequences of a situation could be 4. App. of the personal meaning (what outcome might imply about us) |
| General adaptation syndrome (GAS) | Selye's description of the body's responses to a stressor, which includes successive phases of alarm reaction, resistance and exhaustion. |
| Who developed the GAS? | Hans Selye |
| What are the 3 phases of the GAS? | 1. Alarm reaction 2. Resistance 3. Exhaustion |
| Alarm reaction | Stage 1 of the GAS. Sudden activation of the sympathetic nervous system and release of stress hormones by the endocrine system (increase in heart rate and respiration, pupil dilation, slowed digestion). |
| Resistance | Stage 2 of the GAS. Body's resources continue to be mobilized. Suppression of digestion and of the immune system, elevated heart rate and respiration. Can't continue indefinitely. |
| Exhaustion | Stage 3 of the GAS. Body's resources are dangerously depleted. Increased vulnerability to disease. The more severe the stress, the sooner the body enters exhaustion. |
| Cortisol | A hormone produced during a period of stress that triggers an increase in blood sugars, which is then provided to the skeletal muscles along with additional oxygen; also suppressed the immune system. |
| A transactional model of stress specifies interactions among which 4 factors? | 1. Situational factors 2. Cognitive appraisal processes 3. Physiological responses 4. Behaviour attempts to cope |
| What is the purpose of the transactional model of stress? | To predict individual differences in response to stressors. |
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